The phrase "almost as capable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the abilities or skills of two subjects, indicating that one is nearly equal to the other in capability.
Example: "While the new software is not as advanced as the previous version, it is almost as capable in handling basic tasks."
Alternatives: "nearly as competent" or "practically as skilled".
There are other players almost as capable.
At first, even the need for post-war relief and rehabilitation was under-rated, having been seen "almost as capable of being met by semi-private charity".
These will generally be almost as capable as, but significantly less power-hungry and noisy than, the best if they have almost as many parallel processing units running at a slightly lower speed and voltage.
It's less self-conscious than that of the author's best-known hero, Frank Bascombe, who starred in "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day" (and the less successful "Lay of the Land"), but almost as elastic, capable of capturing the vernacular of the everyday, while addressing the big philosophical questions of choice and fate.
It is almost as resistant as platinum, capable of withstanding attack by dilute sulfuric and hydrochloric acids as well as chloride solutions, and most organic acids.
It's almost as if they've been capable of high speed all this time and have simply been throttling it.
As good as Rodriguez was for three years, Alfonso Soriano (77 homers, 193 r.b.i. the last two years) is capable of producing almost as much offense.
Still, she is passionate about what her buildings look like — "I have a preference for light structure, for things that look light, almost fragile," she told me — and as capable of obsessing over a single detail as Norman Foster.
Indeed, HCCR-1 was capable of transforming, almost as efficient as Ras, the NIH/3T3 and Rat1 cells.
My wife is Danish; in Scandinavia, Norwegians are usually regarded as capable, healthy people -- almost too healthy.
Nevertheless, Mr. Bacque makes a point that is irrefutable: some American G.I.'s and their officers were capable of acting in almost as brutal a manner as the Nazis.
